Advertising-sign.



J. LUCAS.

ADVERTISING SIGN.

APPLICATION FILED APR.24| 1913.

1 l w 1 3. Patented Apr. 25, 1916.

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pn'inrnn snares a rman JONATHAN LUCAS, OF SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, ASSIGNOR OF 0NE-HALF T0 WILLIAM C. PEAD, OF SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.

ADVERTISING-SIGN.

I Application filed April 24, 1

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JONATHAN LUCAS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Savannah, in the county of Chatham and State of Georgia, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Advertising-Signs, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a new and useful improvement in advertising signs or display cards, and consists of a new and novel com bination of fixed and moving parts and colors, as hereinafter fully described.

The primary object of my invention is to construct an advertising sign or display card which will present to the eye and mind of the observer the optical illusion of liquid in motion within a glass receptacle which is being agitated. This object I attain by the construction and arnngement of parts and colors illustrated in the accompanying drawing and described hereafter in this specification.

Referring to my drawings, in which sim ilar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views: Figure 1 is a front view or elevation of my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of Fig. 1 about the line 23. Fig. 3 shows a modified form of my invention.

A is a sheet of metal, cardboard or other suitable material upon which is printed, stamped or painted a perspective pictorial representation of a drinking glass or tumbler, B, nearly filled with a liquid and partially hidden by the representation of a hand. Secured to the back of the card, A, is a supporting block or frame, G, Within which is fixedly mounted an upstanding flat spring, C. Upon the upper end of the spring, C, is securely mounted a member (hereinafter called the plasher) C From and above the line B, immediately within and following the contour lines of the sides of the tumbler, B, up to and following the contour line, 13 of the rim of the tumbler, B, the sheet or card, A, is cut away, leaving an aperture through which may be seen part of the plasher, C The plasher, C is so mounted that it will stand immediately behind and in juxtaposition to the card, A, and so that it is partly above and partly below the lower edge of the'aperture in said Specification of Letters Patent.

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card, A, and extends across said aperture on both sides, leaving the upper part open.

F is a covering or backing sheet of cardboard or other suitable material mounted on the back of the frame or support, C, and visible through the upper part of the aperture in the card or sheet, A. F may be shaded or colored to form a suitable background to the picture on the card, A. The card, A, is shown cut away on Figs. 1 and 3, so as to expose part of the plasher, C

The hatch lines on Figs. 1 and 3 represent the color of the liquid depicted in the tumbler or bottle. The visible surface of the plasher, C and so much thereof as may become visible when it is in motion, must be of the same or approximately the same shade or color as the liquid represented. By slight ar or shock a rocking movement will be given to the plasher, C", as it swings to and fro over the stationary lower end of the sensitive spring, C, when, the plasher, C being of the same color and to the eye practically continuous with an d part of the liquid depicted in the tumbler, 13, below the line C, a realistic optical illusion of liquid in motion is conveyed to the eye. The curved upper line or edge of the plasher, C follows the apparent line of the liquid level around the far side of the glass through which we look. This is an essential element of my invention, as it simulates the liquid level and, when the receptacle is agitated, produces the optical. effect of liquid plashing against the inner sides of the tumbler or receptacle.

lVhile I have shown a simple form of my invention in the drawings 1 do not mean, to confine n'iyself to the exact construction or details shown. It is obvious that a similar eifect may be produced by using the pictorial representation of any suitable receptacle containing liquid in connection with the mechanism and details described in this specification. It is also apparent that the aperture may be enlarged downwardly, keeping within the side contour lines of the receptacle.

I am aware that it is old to imitate wave motion of a body of water surrounded, or partially surrounded by land by means of a plurality of plashers or strips having scalloped edges, such strips being colored to imitate water and mounted below a support and actuated so as to swing from side to side the sheet or card behind whichsaid strips are mounted having a landscape depicted thereon.

By the word receptacle as used in this specification, I mean an artificial receptacle, such as a bottle, tumbler, or other transparent article, as distinguished from a natural receptacle formed by depressions in the surface of the earth.

By the words receptacle, tumbler and liquid, as used in my specification and claims, I mean, the pictorial representa tion of a receptacle, tumbler or liquid, respectively.

I claim:

1. In an advertising sign, the combination of a card on which is depicted a receptacle partly filled with liquid, the card having an aperture approximately coincident with the upper part of said depiction, a plasher of the same color as said liquid and having a concave upper edge visible through the aperture, and a support for said plasher over which it rocks upon motion being imparted to the card.

2. In an advertising sign, the combination of a card or sheet upon which is depicted a liquid containing receptacle, the card having an aperture approximately coincident with the upper part of said depiction, and a rocking plasher of the same color as said liquid and having a concave upper edge, said plasher extending across the aperture and being'so mounted that upon motion being imparted to the card the optical illusion of liquid in motionwillbe produced, substantially as described.

3. In an advertising sign, the combination of a card or sheet upon which is depicted in Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the motion will be created.

4:. In an advertising sign designed to imitate liquid in motion, the combination of a card or sheet having a receptacle for liquid depicted thereon and an aperture within the contour lines of said depiction, a plasher colored to imitate liquid and disposed behind and in juxtaposition to said aperture so as to partially close it, and an upstanding spring whose lower end is fixed and whose upper end supports the plasher, substantially as described.

5. In an advertising sign, the combination of a card or sheet upon which is depicted in perspective a transparent receptacle Whose lower part is shown as containing liquid, the card having an aperture approximately coincident with the upper part of said depiction, a frame around said aperture at the rear of the card, a backing over said frame, a plasher within the frame having a curved upper edge and surface of the same color as the liquid shown, and an upstanding spring whose lower end is fixed in said frame and whose upper end supports the plasher, so that, when the card is vibrated, the optical illusion of liquid in motion will be created.

JONATHAN LUCAS.

Witnesses:

T. P. RAVENEL, ROY FINN.

Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

